code.dlang.org having problems?

[martin]

On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 20:31:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 04:59:49PM +0000, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 09:45 -0700, H. S. Teoh via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > […]
>> > 
>> > That is why a sane build system should always cache 
>> > dependencies locally, and not have to rely on network 
>> > servers being always available.
>> 
>> Dub does exactly that, so not a problem. Dub even has the 
>> --skip-registry option to avoid the network access at all. My 
>> problem is that this is effectively a first build and Dub 
>> repository access is mandatory or no build can start using Dub.
> [...]
>
> Well, if you don't have dependencies installed locally (via dub 
> or otherwise), then obviously it's impossible to build 
> anything. :-D That's hardly a dub problem, right?
>
>
> T

You could go to knock on the devs door of a dependency and ask 
for a copy of the code (e.g. on a floppy :) ). It is possible to 
add "a local package directory (e.g. a git repository)" in dub - 
so no need for hipster-WWW ;P

btw: The vibe repo seems to be up and running again.